Posts Tagged with "domain name"

Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Accra Remote Hub Participation

Monday, November 16, 2009

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I am participating remotely in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2009 currently going on in Egypt, from Accra. The Accra remote hub participation is under the theme “Internet Governance – Creating Opportunities for Ghana”. Promoting IPv6 adoption in Ghana: An important step towards bridging the digital divide was presented by Ivy Tuffour of AITI-KACE. I spoke on [...]

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The death of Kalu Ndukwe & how it affected the .NG Domain Registry

Friday, October 2, 2009

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The .NG domain name registry has been problematic for about two weeks now. New domains could not be registered via the Internet and some old ones stopped working. I had been sniffing around to find the root cause. It turned out that my suspicion on the problem was right – the problem is linked to [...]

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EstDomains’ ICANN Accreditation revoked

Thursday, November 13, 2008

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Effective 24th November 2008, EstDomains ceases to be an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar. ICANN* is revoking the accreditation on the basis that the President of EstDomains, Vladimir Tsastsin based on records from an Estonian court, was convicted of credit card fraud, money laundering and document forgery. Hitherto, there had been a lot of hue-and-cry about EstDomains [...]

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.me domains: How to register .me domain names

Thursday, June 5, 2008

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.me is the Country-code Top-Level Domain name (cc-TLD) for the Montenegro, a newly independent country in eastern Europe. The .me domain which is sponsored by the Government of Montenegro, is generally available for entities connected with Montenegro but in actual use, it is beginning to replace .name as the ideal TLD for personal domain names. And [...]

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Web hosting in Nigeria

Thursday, June 5, 2008

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Residents of Nigeria: How to host your website from Nigeria and pay in Naira. Web4Africa Nigeria offers the best value for your money with world-class web hosting, friendly customer support, timely order processing, low-priced domains.

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The World’s Web Hosting Businesses; Reviewed, Ranked and Ready

Thursday, January 24, 2008

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WebHostingSearch.com is an independent web hosting information guide that shares useful information about all the world’s web hosts, reviewed and ranked by Pricing, Disk Space, Bandwidth, Free Domains and other important factors that would guide a website owner to choose the best web host. On this website, you can read everything you need to know about [...]

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ubaplc.com expired

Thursday, January 10, 2008

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I have had to blog a few times about domain names of important Nigerian institutions expiring. I never imagined that a day would come when I would blog about a bank not renewing its domain name on time. I am talking about UBA PLC’s ubaplc.com domain name. I wanted to check their website this morning for [...]

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Why Yemma.com.ng is offline

Friday, June 8, 2007

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You probably know Emmanuel Oluwatosin, a Nigerian blogger, and entrepreneur. Probably, you know he runs a blog at www.yemma.com.ng He is one the few Nigerians to have started using .ng domains for their website 2 years ago. As a matter of fact, I have been admiring him for 2 years because his entire personal website/blog [...]

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Oyo State Government domain name expired and displaying Google Ads.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

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It is commonplace for the different tiers of government and their institutions in Nigeria, to be using generic top-level domains, especially .com, .net and .org I find this completely un-acceptable. I am of the opinion that there should be a legislation, forcing the Presidency and all other government institutions, to use .ng [...]

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.ng domains, why you need them

Saturday, January 13, 2007

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At the time of writing this piece, the total number of .ng domains that have been registered are less than a mere 1,500. Infact, the total number of .ng domains in the registry of the registrar, today January 13th 2007, is 1364. The registration of .ng domains have witnessed a very low patronage among Nigerians, over [...]

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